Lead Product Designer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Product Designer based in India.

This is a lead individual contributor role for a product designer ready to shape sophisticated digital experiences across strategically important product areas. You will combine exceptional design craft, product thinking, systems thinking, and customer empathy to influence product direction and quality. Working closely with product and engineering leaders, you will translate complex customer needs, business objectives, and technical constraints into intuitive, scalable experiences. You will also mentor designers, strengthen design standards, and help teams consistently deliver high-quality work. The role offers significant autonomy and visibility, with opportunities to influence product strategy, design culture, and team practices. You will work in a highly collaborative, distributed environment alongside global product, engineering, data, and design teams.

• Lead design strategy and execution for one or more strategically important product pillars, from discovery and definition through delivery and iteration.
• Translate customer needs, business goals, product strategy, and technical constraints into clear experience strategies, design roadmaps, and product direction.
• Partner closely with product and engineering leaders to define product vision, prioritize opportunities, and align teams around high-quality outcomes.
• Influence senior-level product decisions through customer insights, data synthesis, product judgment, compelling storytelling, and strong design rationale.
• Conduct and guide research, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, content strategy, and usability testing throughout the product lifecycle.
• Establish and maintain high standards for visual design, hierarchy, typography, grids, spacing, interaction quality, usability, accessibility, motion, and overall product polish.
• Drive design quality reviews and ensure experiences align with established design systems, reusable patterns, and accessibility standards.
• Mentor designers and raise the quality of work across multiple teams through critique, coaching, shared standards, documentation, and systems thinking.
• Define and socialize meaningful design-quality and product-impact metrics, including usability, accessibility, task success, adoption, retention, and customer satisfaction.
• Lead complex discovery and design initiatives in ambiguous environments by synthesizing diverse inputs, framing decisions, and creating clarity for cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with data, machine learning, automation, and platform teams to design intelligent and AI-driven product experiences.
• Explore and apply AI-powered tools for research, exploration, prototyping, critique, synthesis, and workflow acceleration.
• Improve design operations, processes, tools, documentation, rituals, and ways of working across the broader design organization.
• Advocate for accessibility, inclusion, ethical design, and customer-centered decision-making.
• Foster effective collaboration across distributed teams and time zones, including close partnership with colleagues in India and the United States.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant product design experience, including at least 2 years in a leadership, mentorship, or design-direction capacity.
• Strong experience designing SaaS, B2B, platform, workflow-heavy, or similarly complex digital products.
• An exceptional portfolio demonstrating systematic thinking, customer empathy, sophisticated design craft, measurable product impact, and leadership beyond individual feature execution. A portfolio is required for consideration.
• Proven ability to lead data-informed product design across research, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, content strategy, and usability testing.
• Exceptional visual and interaction design skills, with a deep understanding of hierarchy, layout, typography, grids, spacing, motion, usability, accessibility, and product quality.
• Experience designing AI-driven or intelligent interfaces and collaborating with machine learning, data, automation, or platform teams.
• Deep proficiency with design systems, accessibility standards, reusable patterns, and scalable product experience decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to influence design direction for high-impact product areas, platforms, systems, or product pillars rather than only individual features.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with product managers, engineers, data specialists, customer-facing teams, senior stakeholders, and designers.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, including the ability to simplify complex concepts, lead critiques and workshops, present design rationale, and influence decisions.
• Experience mentoring designers and strengthening design practices, standards, processes, and team culture.
• Mandatory experience using AI-powered tools for design exploration, prototyping, critique, synthesis, or workflow acceleration.
• Strong ability to balance speed, detail, scalability, and design quality while maintaining a clear focus on customer outcomes.
• Ability to work effectively across distributed, multicultural, and international teams with flexibility around working hours.
• Commitment to accessibility, inclusion, ethical design, and respectful collaboration.

Benefits

• 100% remote work environment with distributed collaboration across global teams.
• Significant autonomy to shape design direction across strategically important product areas.
• Meaningful influence with product, engineering, data, and senior leadership.
• Opportunities to mentor designers and raise design standards across multiple teams.
• Craft-focused culture emphasizing product quality, customer outcomes, and continuous improvement.
• Flexible and thoughtful collaboration across India, the United States, and other time zones.
• Opportunity to work with AI-powered technologies and modern product development practices.
• Opportunities to contribute to design systems, team rituals, standards, and broader design strategy.
• Inclusive environment that values accessibility, ethical design, collaboration, and individual contributions.

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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